Thursday, 19 April 2018

PINKHES A. SIRKIN

PINKHES
A. SIRKIN (b. 1907)

He was born in Zgierzh (Zgierz),
near Lodz, Poland.He was the son of the
Agudat Yisrael deputy in the Polish parliament, Eliezer Sirkin.He studied in religious elementary school and
yeshivas and with private tutors.From
his youth he was active in the Orthodox youth movement and one of its first
leaders who defended pioneering in the land of Israel.In 1933 he settled in Israel.He founded Hassidic agricultural
colonies.His first poems were published
in the anthology Unzer traybkraft
(Our motor force) (Lodz, 1926), and from that time on he contributed to: Der flaker (The flare), Der yudisher arbayter (The Jewish
worker), Beys-yankev zhurnal (Beys-Yankev
journal), and Unzer lebn (Our life)
of which he was also editor—all in Lodz; Der
yud (The Jew), Dos yudishe togblat
(The Jewish daily newspaper), Ortodoksishe
yugnt-bleter (Orthodox youth pages), Darkhenu
(Our way), and Deglanu (Our banner),
among others, in Warsaw; Dos vort
(The word) in Vilna; and Hamodia (The
herald) and Shaarim (Gates) in
Israel; among others.In book form
(listed under P. A. Sirski): Gilgulim,
khasidishe drame in dray aktn (Metamorphoses, a Hassidic drama in three
acts) (Pietrkov, 1929), 144 pp.He was
last living in Jerusalem, an official in the Knesset.